{"sf1_id":352130,"sf2_id":"Rm0yNGWn","title":"Melody for a Broken Heart","author":"Xandie","words":199,"posted_at":"2012-03-10T17:49:00.000Z","tags":["First Person","Poem"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/352130-melody-for-a-broken-heart","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/Rm0yNGWn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/90/72/9072c7c2-0347-4702-aa0e-0c39c45530f3","description":"poem","content":"The strings are cold on my fingertips\n\nAnd my lips are mourning for your lips\n\nBitter tears are streaming down my cheeks again\n\nStaining my yearning flesh with bruised heartache\n\nAnd filling my dreams with tarnished memories of then\n\nYou were once my whole world\n\nNow you are the crumbled ruins of my universe\n\nLying in tattered remnants about my feet\n\nAnd these strings are crying out for you\n\nYour name hanging on every note\n\nMy fingers are bleeding crimson now\n\nPressing in so desperately to feel\n\nThe chords caressed in red\n\nAnd I'm falling once again\n\nBut the worst of this whole ordeal is\n\nI know you won't be here\n\nNot like you were then\n\nAnd there will be no bandages to heal my infected wounds\n\nNor sympathy for my shattered pride\n\nAfter all,\n\nYou were the one to compose this piece\n\nThat breaks my skin and stings with salted tears\n\nThe one I am playing over and over again\n\nAnd yet,\n\nI am disappointed in you once more\n\nYou're not even here to listen to me play your melody\n\nYou remember it don't you?\n\nIt's the one you wrote for me.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nCopy-written to Xander Bradeshaw\n\n  \n  \n\n"}